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DC Events | January 22 - January 27

Sunday, January 22
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
2:00 PM Communication, Technology, Government and Grassroots From the Telegraph to the Internet: How Both Governments and Protesters Exploit New Communications Technologies National Museum of Language Irene S. Wu
 

Monday, January 23
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:00 AM Marketing, Communications What's Next DC: Your Marketing Communications Roadmap Green Buzz Agency George Hood, Jamie DePeau, Gwynne Kostin, B. Bonin Bough, Timothy Chi, Sabrina Caluori, Eric Ludwig, Amy Thibodeau and more RSVP
8:30 AM Pro-life Activism ProLifeCon: The Premier Gathering of Online Pro-Life Activists Family Research Council Chris Smith, Vicky Hartzler, Ryan Bomberger, Gerard Nadal, Lila Rose and more RSVP
8:30 AM Science, Human Rights, Law AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition AAAS Rebecca Tsosie, Megan Bang, Ethel Branch, Jose Aguto, Chris Farley and more RSVP
9:00 AM A.Q. Khan, Nuclear Proliferation The A.Q. Khan Network and its Fourth Customer Carnegie Joshua Pollack
9:30 AM Energy Outlook Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2012 Annual Energy Outlook Release SAIS Howard K. Gruenspecht RSVP
10:00 AM Campaign Finance, Citizens United Citizens United Two Years Later: Money and Politics in 2012 CAP Jeff Clements, Melanie Sloan, Monica Youn RSVP
10:00 AM Income Inequality, Economic Growth Reducing Income Inequality While Boosting Economic Growth: Can It Be Done? OECD Isabell Koske, David Carey RSVP
10:00 AM Energy Security, Fukushima Discussion of Fukushima from a Global Point of View: From the Perspective of Energy Security USJI Guy Caruso, Jack Spencer, Shoichi Itoh, Jane Nakano, Atsushi Tago, RSVP
11:30 AM Egypt, Economy An Economic Perspective On The Arab Spring One Year Later, With Undersecretary Of State Hormats Stimson Thomas R. Pickering, Olin Wethington, Mona Yacoubian RSVP
12:00 PM Post-Soviet, Monuments Monument Wars Across the Post-Soviet Space as a Conflict of Memories and Cultures Wilson Center Peter Cheremushkin
12:00 PM East Asia, Demographic Change Impact of Demographic Change on Developing Asia’s Economic Growth and Old-Age Economic Security GMU Public Policy Donghyun Park
12:00 PM Ba'th Party, Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime Wilson Center Joseph Sassoon, Rochelle Davis RSVP
12:00 PM Haiti-U.S. U.S. and UN in Haiti: Building Back Better UN Association Rebeca Grynspan, Edmond Mulet, Thomas C. Adams, Victoria K. Holt RSVP
12:30 PM Maryland, Health Care Educational Forum on Maryland’s Health Benefit Exchange (Annapolis Event) Maryland Women's Coalition Joshua Sharfstein, Carolyn Quattrocki, Susan F. Wood, Jennifer Goldberg, Judy Waxman RSVP
2:15 PM Super PACs Advisory Committee on Transparency Panel Discussion on Super PACs Sunlight Foundation Eliza Newlin Carney, Allen Dickerson, Mimi Marziani, Trevor Potter RSVP
3:00 PM Clean Air Act Roundtable: The State of the Clean Air Act: Past, Present and Future WRI Tom Carper, Lamar Alexander, William Ruckelshaus, William Reilly, Ralph Izzo and more
3:00 PM Chile The Southern Tiger: Chile’s Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future Brookings Thomas Pickering, Arturo Valenzuela RSVP
4:00 PM Abraham Lincoln, Irish Abraham Lincoln and the Irish Wilson Center Kevin Kenny
4:00 PM Haiti, Gender-Based Violence Haiti Briefing: Gender Based Violence Haiti Advocacy Working Group Marie Ange Noel, Emmania Duchard, Marguerite Salomon, Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Melanie Verveer
4:00 PM Foreign Aid Is Foreign Aid Worth the Cost? Wilson Center Carol J. Lancaster, Charles O. Flickner, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Donald M. Payne RSVP
4:00 PM PPACA, Supreme Court The Supreme Court Cases Challenging the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act O'Neill Institute Randy Barnett, Paul Clement, Randy Moss
5:00 PM Immigration Policy Lessons for a Bi-Partisan Immigration Compromise: Film Excerpts and Conversations with the Filmmakers of How Democracy Works Now CGD Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini, Esther Olavarria RSVP
5:00 PM Russia, WTO Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization AU Law Chiedu Osakwe RSVP
6:00 PM Haiti Haiti Advocacy Working Group Reception Haiti Advocacy Working Group RSVP
6:30 PM Military Base, Okinawa Close the U.S. Military Base in Okinawa, Japan IPS RSVP
7:00 PM Interactive Books Future of Books Future of Books James Brannan, Deborah Smith-Cohen RSVP
7:00 PM The Inquisition God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World Politics and Prose Cullen Murphy
 

Tuesday, January 24
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:30 AM State of the Union State of the Union: The Speechwriters' Perspective Bipartisan Policy Bob Lehrman, Jeff Shesol, John McConnell RSVP
9:00 AM Chile Chile's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with Ricardo Lagos CSIS Ricardo Lagos RSVP
9:00 AM Cradle-to-College Support, DC DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative: Supporting Cradle-to-College Success Urban Institute Michael McAfee, Susan Popkin, Irasema Salcido, Sharita Slayton RSVP
9:00 AM Haiti, Cholera Haiti Briefing: Health and Cholera Haiti Advocacy Working Group Louise Ivers, Ralph Ternier, Jordon Tappero, Mirta Roses, Mark Weisbro
9:00 AM Litigation Advice Trial Practice Seminar George Washington Law Diana S.Dickinson, Allan Goodman, Gary E.Shapiro, Peter F.Pontzer, Jack Tieder RSVP
9:00 AM U.S. Innovation, Competition Restoring the Innovation Edge ITIF Jerald Hage RSVP
10:00 AM Natural Gas Exports Evaluating the Prospects for Natural Gas Exports from the United States Brookings James Jensen, Kenneth Medlock III, Michael Ratner RSVP
10:00 AM Somalia Regional Implications of the Conflict in Somalia CSIS Sally Healy, David W. Throup RSVP
10:00 AM Child Education, Literacy The Literacy Challenge: Getting Reading Right in More Classrooms AEI Cami Anderson, Jean-Claude Brizard, John Deasy, Glynn Thompson, Mark Vineis RSVP
11:00 AM Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Program VOA Charlie Nelms, Eric Conway, Ruth Blake
11:30 AM Roe v. Wade, Women Virgin Hall: The Culture of Women in the US Pre and Post Roe v. Wade Woman's National Democratic Club Janet Taliaferro RSVP
12:00 PM Korean Peninsula, China Chinese Perspectives on North Korea and Reunification KEI Sunny Lee, Nicholas Hamisevicz RSVP
12:00 PM Legal Mobilization Beyond Legal Mobilization: Rethinking Rights and Power AU Law Michael McCann RSVP
12:00 PM Afghan War, Taliban The End of the Afghan War: Talking with the Taliban and What Comes Next CNP Paul McHale, Michael O'Hanlon, Joshua Foust RSVP
12:00 PM FBI, Community Outreach The Importance of Community Outreach to the FBI Rumi Forum James W. McJunkin RSVP
12:00 PM State of the Union, Libertarianism The Libertarian State of the Union Cato Michael Tanner, Mark Calabria, Dan Mitchell, Ilya Shapiro RSVP
12:00 PM Religion, Elections God and Politics: Examining Religion in the 2012 Election CAP Joanna Brooks, Shaun A. Casey, Gabriel Salguero RSVP
12:15 PM Richard Holbrooke The Unquiet American: Remembering Richard Holbrooke New America Kati Marton, Shamila Chaudhary, Shamila Chaudhary, Alexander Evans, David Rohde, Rufus Phillips RSVP
1:00 PM Climate Change Post-Durban Update CSIS Jonathan Pershing RSVP
1:00 PM Yemen, Salafis Salafis in Yemen: Caught in the Revolution? Carnegie Laurent Bonnefoy, Ginny Hill, RSVP
2:00 PM Haiti, Land Rights Briefing: Land and Housing Rights in Haiti Haiti Advocacy Working Group Pierre DouDou, Colette Lespinasse, Brian Concannon, Dominique Toussaint, Michelle Karsha
2:00 PM Syrian Uprising The Syrian Uprising Seen From The Arab World IISS-US Emile Hokayem
2:00 PM Vietnam, Human Rights Examining Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Vietnam House International Relations Committee Anh Cao, Nguyen Dinh Thang, Rong Nay, Phuong-Anh Vu
3:00 PM Transatlantic Alliance The Transatlantic Bargain in 2012: Still a Good Deal? Atlantic Council Alexandr Vondra RSVP
3:30 PM Vietnam Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam Wilson Center James Hershberg, Stuart H. Loory, Fredrik Logevall RSVP
4:00 PM Information Law Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice Georgetown Law Danielle Citron, Daniel Solove, Rebecca Tushnet RSVP
6:00 PM Iran, Obama A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran World Affairs Council Trita Parsi RSVP
6:00 PM Journalism, Looted Antiquities Chasing Aphrodite: Investigative Journalists Track Down Looted Antiquities Press Club Jason Felch, Ralph Frammolino, Gary Vikan, Arthur Houghton
6:30 PM State of the Union 3rd State of the Union Progress Party: 2012 Kickoff Networking Mixer & Speech Watching Event @ Local 16 Network for Progress
6:30 PM Haiti Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake Busboys Mark Schuller
6:30 PM DC, Urban Design The Federal Urban Design Workshop Federal Urban Design Initiative RSVP
7:30 PM State of the Union Come Watch President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address at the WNDC! Woman's National Democratic Club RSVP
8:00 PM State of the Union CGD State of the Union Bingo CGD RSVP
8:00 PM State of the Union State of the Union: Viewing Party (All Busboys Locations) Busboys
 

Wednesday, January 25
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:00 AM Auto Industry, Green Economy Driving Innovation: The Role of the Auto Industry In the Green Economy National Gallery Jim Tankersley, Amy Harder, Ron Cogan, Alan Krupnick, Mike Stanton RSVP
8:00 AM Leadership, Education Leveraging the Leadership Community for Success and Sustainability New Leaders Alicia R. Adams, James H. Lytle, Kathy A. Raffa, Sonya J. Stone, James Lytle, David Pinder, Linda Moore and more
8:00 AM State of the Union State of the Union Congressional Debrief 2012 The Atlantic - National Journal Ron Brownstein, James Bennet, Jackie Calmes, Major Garrett
8:30 AM Public Sector Employees, 2012 Elections Collective Bargaining, Public Pensions and Voters: The Policy and Politics of Public-Sector Employees in the 2012 Elections AEI Scott Beaulier, Andrew G. Biggs, Eileen C. Norcross, Henry Olsen, Ruy Teixeira and more RSVP
9:00 AM Trade Finance Trade Finance Moves into the Spotlight WITA Jack Insinga, Marc Auboin, Jeff Abramson RSVP
9:00 AM West Africa, Sahel, Food Crisis Is a Food Crisis Brewing in the Sahel? Wilson Center Eric Munoz, Dramane Coulibaly, Jacques Higgins, John Staatz, Greg Gottlieb and more RSVP
9:30 AM Arab Awakening, Technology Awakening Arab Innovation Carnegie Inger Andersen, Rami Khouri RSVP
10:30 AM State of the Union State of the Union 2012: Politics and Policy Brookings Karen Dynan, Martin S. Indyk, Eswar Prasad, Robert Puentes, Elisabeth Jacobs, Pietro S. Nivola RSVP
10:30 AM Haiti Who Runs Haiti? Governance, Political Power, and Democracy in Haiti Haiti Advocacy Working Group Thomas C. Adams, Rene Magloire, Danny Glover, Brian Concannon, Mark Weisbrot and more
10:30 AM Muslim Radicalism Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals Heritage Ken Ballen RSVP
11:30 AM Entrepreneurship, Golf Wharton-HBS Entrepreneurship Forum: Focus On Aero-X Golf Wharton Club Steve Lebischak RSVP
12:00 PM IP Law, SOPA-PIPA Resolved: The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) Should be Utilized to Try to Control Bad Behavior Such as Copyright and Trademark Infringement Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute Paul Brigner, David Sohn
12:00 PM Photojournalism, Freedom of Press The Ongoing Assault on the Right to Photograph/Record in Public Press Club Mickey H. Osterreicher
12:00 PM Azerbaijan, Democracy What is to be done with Pseudo-Democracies: The Case of Azerbaijan NED Hikmet Hadjy-zadeh, Sharon Wolchik RSVP
12:00 PM Intermarium, Southeast Europe Intermarium: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova IWP Marek Jan Chodakiewicz RSVP
12:00 PM Clean Tech, Marketing Marketing Strategies for Swedish Firms Entering Or Expanding Clean Tech In USA Wharton Club Anna Helm RSVP
12:00 PM Obama, Military President Obama and a 21st Century Military CAP Michael Breen, Jim Arkedis, Lawrence J. Korb RSVP
12:30 PM Yemen Yemen's Stalemate Elliott School Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Sheila Carapico, Laurent Bonnefy RSVP
1:00 PM Public Diplomacy, Metrics Feasibility of Metrics in Public Diplomacy: Why and What Heritage Amy Zalman RSVP
1:30 PM Muslim-Americans The Muslim-American Muddle: Where Do Muslims Fit in American Society? AEI Hillel Fradkin, Souheil Ghannouchi, Andrew C. Mccarthy, Justin Vaïsse RSVP
3:00 PM Energy, Sustainability Sustainable Solutions for the Planet’s Energy Challenge Wilson Center Greg Kats, Daniel Kammen RSVP
3:30 PM Patent Law, Adjudication Regulation Innovation: How The Patent and Trademark Office Intends to Create Adjudication From Scratch AU Law RSVP
4:00 PM Arab Youth, Social Change Next Generation Peacebuilding and Social Change in the Arab World USIP Jabir Habeb, Maryam al Khawaja, Rami Nakhla aka Malath Aumran RSVP
5:00 PM Interfaith January President's Challenge Roundtable Berkley Center James Lorello
5:30 PM Central Asia-U.S. U.S. Interests in Central Asia and Its Strategy for Advancing Them SAIS Robert O. Blake RSVP
6:00 PM Black Slavery, Imagery Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain National Gallery Catherine Molineaux
6:15 PM Networking, Conservatives & Libertarians January Happy Hour AFF RSVP
6:30 PM Constitutional Law Education Constitutional Law Education Reception George Washington Law RSVP
 

Thursday, January 26
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
7:30 AM Technology, Entrepreneurship Startup Outlook 2012: Growing a Company in the Current Market Potomac Techwire Jocelyn Gailliot, Blake Hall, Stephanie Hay, Revell Horsey, Brooke Salkoff and more RSVP
8:30 AM Republican Primary AEI Election Watch 2012, Session 2: Romney and the Rest: Is the Race Over? AEI Michael Barone, Henry Olsen, Norman J. Ornstein RSVP
8:30 AM Sustainable Transport Transforming Transportation 2012 (Day 1 of 2) WRI RSVP
9:00 AM Counterterrorism, Information Sharing Information Sharing: Adapting and Improving an Expanded ISE CSIS Kshemendra Paul, David Shedd, Aaron Kustermann, Michael Howell, Kathleen Turco and more RSVP
9:00 AM National Security, Industry The Future of the National Security Industrial Base Brookings Mackenzie Eaglen, Robert P. Haffa, Peter W. Singer, David Morrison, David Worn RSVP
9:15 AM Education, Improving Teaching Watching Teachers Work: Using Data from Classroom Observations to Improve Teaching New America Lisa Guernsey, Susan Ochshorn, Elena Silva, Danielle Wilson, Noreen Thompson RSVP
10:00 AM State Education Policy Grading the States on School Choice Heritage Jim DeMint, Dave Myslinski, Matthew Ladner, Chip Rogers RSVP
10:00 AM Social Insurance Social Insurance in a Market Economy: Obstacles and Opportunities (Day 1 of 2) NASI RSVP
11:00 AM Broadband Policy, Social Justice MMTC Broadband & Social Justice Summit (Day 1 of 2) Minority Media Telecommunications Council RSVP
11:30 AM Photography, Senate All Access: The Life of a US Senate Photographer Woman's National Democratic Club George Tolbert RSVP
12:00 PM Low-Carbon Transport Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development Through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector Carnegie Andreas Kopp, K.W. Axhausen, Shin-pei Tsay RSVP
12:00 PM Repealing PPACA Beyond the Individual Mandate: Why ObamaCare Must Be Repealed Heritage Sally C. Pipes, Michael D. Tanner, Grace-Marie Turner RSVP
12:00 PM Supreme Court, Ethics A Question Of Integrity: Politics, Ethics And The Supreme Court AU Law William Yeomans
12:00 PM Human Rights, Int'l Security The Responsibility to Protect: Law? Aspiration? Or a Licence to Kill? George Washington Law Elizabeth Griffin
12:00 PM Iran How to Prevent War in the Gulf: While Stopping Iran from Getting the Bomb CNP Afshon Ostovar, Matthew Kroenig, Alireza Nader RSVP
12:00 PM Monetary Policy Monetary Exit Strategy and Fiscal Spillovers GMU Public Policy Jan Libich
12:00 PM Christian-Muslim Relations, Radical Islam Responding to Islam: Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, and Bishop George Bell Family Research Council Patrick Sookhdeo RSVP
12:15 PM Russia, Middle East Russia's Strategy in the Middle East Carnegie Natasha Mozgovaya, Alexey Malashenko, Marwan Muasher, Karim Sadjadpour, Matthew Rojansky RSVP
12:30 PM Colombia, Labor Rights The U.S.-Colombia Labor Action Plan: Real Progress or Empty Promises? WOLA Alexander Lopez Maya, Tarsicio Mora Godoy, Jorge Ivan Velez Calvo RSVP
1:30 PM IP Law Transceding the Tacit Dimension: Patents, Relationships, and the Industrial Organization of Academic Technology Transfer George Washington Law Peter Lee
2:00 PM Arctic Oil & Gas Offshore Oil & Gas in the Arctic: The Next Five Years ELI Shoshana Lew, Eleanor Huffines, Jessica S. Lefevre, Stacy Linden RSVP
2:00 PM Humanitarian Aid Negotiating Humanitarian Access: How Far to Compromise to Deliver Aid Brookings William Garvelink, Markus Geisser, Michael Neuman, Rabih Torbay RSVP
3:00 PM Economy, Creative Industry Presentation of the Study on the Impact of Creative Industries on Jobs and Economic Growth OAS
3:00 PM Martin Luther King Jr. What Would Martin Do? (Rescheduled to 1/26) ADA Education Fund Aisha C. Moodie-Mills, Lennox Yearwood, Steve York, William Spriggs
4:00 PM Jean Monnet Jean Monnet: Unconventional Statesman Wilson Center Thomas Schwartz, Sherrill Brown Wells RSVP
6:00 PM Global Competition, Emerging Markets International Business, Policy and Emerging Markets Beta Gamma Sigma Nikunj Jinsi, William Beach, Guy Pfeffermann
6:30 PM Occupy Movement, Housing Occupy to Liberate & Take Back the Land Movements IPS Max Rameau RSVP
6:30 PM German Colonialism Does the German Colonial Empire Strike Back? The Afterlives of German Colonialism GHI Andreas Eckert, Hartmut Berghoff, Martin Andjaba, Steve McDonald RSVP
7:00 PM Roberto Bolano Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations Politics and Prose Roberto Bolano, Marcela Valdes, Sybil Perez
 

Friday, January 27
Time Subject Title Host Panelist(s) RSVP
8:00 AM Overseas & Military Voting Summit 2012: The Overseas and Military Voting Event of the Year Pew Tom Reilly, Elliot Ackerman, Kim Alexander, David Becker, Jocelyn Benson and more RSVP
8:30 AM Broadband Policy, Social Justice MMTC Broadband & Social Justice Summit (Day 2 of 2) Minority Media Telecommunications Council RSVP
8:30 AM Sustainable Transport Transforming Transportation 2012 (Day 2 of 2) WRI RSVP
8:45 AM France-U.S Partnerships, NGOs French and American Partnerships Among NGOs UN Association James M. Goldgeier, Samuel A. Worthington, Francois Delattre
9:00 AM Social Insurance Social Insurance in a Market Economy: Obstacles and Opportunities (Day 2 of 2) NASI RSVP
9:30 AM Russia, WTO Trade 101 on the Hill: Russia's WTO Accession WITA Betsy Hafner, Randi Levinas, Bill Cooper RSVP
10:00 AM Health Care IT Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT Bipartisan Policy Tom Daschle, Bill Frist RSVP
12:00 PM Japan Recovery in Tohoku: Is It Likely to Happen? SAIS Arthur Mitchell RSVP
2:30 PM Development, Food Safety & Security Mainstreaming Food Safety in Food Security: Getting the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Communities to Really Work Together Aspen Institute Katrin Kuhlmann, John Lamb
3:00 PM Arab Spring, Turkey-Iran-U.S. The US-Turkey-Iran “Triangle” and the Arab Spring Center for Democracy and Civil Society Colin H. Kahl, Erol A. Cebeci, Geneive Abdo RSVP
4:00 PM Energy Markets, Politics Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies AEI Ken Malloy, Steven F. Hayward RSVP
7:00 PM Women, Political Islam Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui Politics and Prose Deborah Scroggins
 

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